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The Great Depression and New Deal Programs

• WPA-Works Progress Administration
• Beau Bethel
• Eastside High School

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Great Depression

• 1929 until U.S. Joined WWII in 1942
• Stock Market Crash of 1929
• 25 Unemployment in 1933
• Prices of Farm goods fell 50
• 9,000 Banks closed from 1930 to 1933

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WPA Works Progress Administration

• Program in FDRs New Deal
• Goal Employ out of work Americans
• Initially designed to improve Americas
  Infrastructure
• Funded programs to help Americans lives

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WPAs Birth

• WPA was created in 1935
• Initially Funded with 4.88 Billion dollars
• Employed 8.5 million workers
• Workers paid 15 to 90 a month
• ½ workers employed in NYC

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Accomplishments of WPA

• Paved 651,000 miles of road
• Built 78,000 bridges
• Built 8,000 parks
• Healthcare awareness
• Slum clearance, reforestation, and rural
  rehabilitation

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Types of WPA Posters

• WPA employed out of work artists
• Created a series of posters
• Posters publicized programs and educated
  Americans
• Promoted plays and musicals

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Public Health Improvements

• Community sewage efforts and fighting disease
• Eradicating Syphilis
• Getting eye examinations
• Proper handling of dairy products
• Improve infant mortality rates

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Educational Programs

• Free trade and technical job classes
• Learn to speak and read English
• Heath awareness
• Promoting reading books
• Promoting the Arts

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Rural Revitalization

• Aid to farmers
• Encourage proper planting techniques
• Growing fruits and vegetables
• Soil erosion prevention techniques

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Improving Housing

• Keeping neighborhoods clean
• Providing low rent housing
• Better housing for healthier babies
• Eliminate crime through planned housing
• Planned housing fights juvenile delinquency

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Employing Americans

• Job recruitment for teenagers
• Interpersonal skills on the job
• Encouraging workers
• Jobs related to industrial arts
• Job Training

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The End

• Acknowledgements
• American Memory Collection
• World Book
• www.indiana.edu